We are huge fans of making virtual pin boards, but there is really nothing like seeing your wedding colors up close and personal. Figuring out if you love Posie or Honeysuckle just a tad more than the other.

New Pantone Wedding Chiplettes™ from Dessy are a cost effective way to select and communicate your wedding colors. Order individual Pantone Wedding™ Chiplette swatches in each of your favorite colors and use them to mix n’ match colors and create the perfect palette for your dream wedding. Chiplettes provide an exact match to your dress color and will help you communicate your colors, instantly and accurately.

Once you have selected your perfect color combination, you can then use Pantone Wedding™ Chiplettes to share with your wedding party and anyone with color related tasks, such as invitations, dresses, cake decoration, flowers and more.

Make your own Pin Board
If you love what we did above, you can easily replicate it. Our pin board is actually a ATP Extra Large Oil Drip Pan purchased at WalMart for around $10. The tiny magnets are actually Buckyballs Magnetic Building Spheres.

The Dessy Group is always a go-to for any bride looking to accessorize her wedding day. Carrying almost anything you will need to jazz up your entire wedding party – from ballet flats to that perfect clutch all the way up to those statement earrings that will complete your wedding look.

On that note, we are excited to offer one lucky reader a $500 gift certificate to The Dessy Group. You will be able to purchase anything you like from their accessories section. Including the perfect bridesmaid dress, The Twist Wrap Dress. How wonderful would it be to buy these for your wedding party? Constructed in luxurious, hand washable matte jersey. Best part about these is they are guaranteed to be worn again.

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving. We hope that you have a nice day with all of your loved ones. Now, on to the fun stuff! Dessy Spring 2011 has launched and we are super excited to bring you the fabulous new Spring Wedding Collection. Take a peek and enjoy! Be sure to visit Dessy.com to see bridesmaid dresses galore, accessories to outfit your wedding party head-to-toe, ties and cuff links for the groom, and so much more! Click here to see all of our Dessy galleries.

One of the biggest highlights of our trip to NYC was hanging out with The Dessy Group. Top notch would be an understatement to describe what they have going on.

They were so kind to give us a tour of their place and boy was it spectacular. Complete with every wedding accessory you might need, the biggest pattern making machine in all of NYC and dresses galore. It was quite a sight.

Seeing all their goodies in person was wonderful, everything is always so much more beautiful in person. The quality of everything they offer was fabulous.

As we have shared with you before The Dessy Group teamed up with Pantone to basically custom match your entire wedding. From adorable ruffled clutches, bow ties all the way down to the perfect ballet flats! So, everything matches perfectly. There are 195 colors in their Pantone Colorways, so a ton of choices to chose from.

They also have something truly wonderful that is going to make your wedding planning effortless.

You can order your color swatches here. They send you a swatch folder in the mail that is beautifully packaged.

In the folder are enough swatches to take to all your vendors. Like your florists, cake decor and coordinator. This way all of your bridesmaid dresses, wedding accessories and decor will match beautifully. Easy as 1, 2, 3

We hope everyone has been enjoying our birthday week and excited at the possibilities of winning some serious goodies.

We want to wrap up our birthday week with some warm and cozy Pashmina Shawls from The Dessy Group. Wrap a pashmina around bare shoulders for a touch of late-evening warmth, or tie around your neck for casual panache. The Dessy Group has offered to Pashmina an entire wedding party and the Moms. (up to 12 ) Perfect for a bridal gift and late night dancing.

All you have to do to enter is visit The Dessy Group share a comment with us on what you love over there. All birthday winners will be chosen next week so keep entering and coming back to see if you won.

We are super excited to announce that Dessy, who by the way we adore just partnered with Cynthia Rowley in order to bring you chick and fashion forward bridesmaid dresses. Design elements will be taken directly from Rowley’s eponymous ready-to-wear collection include tulle skirts and drop-waist silhouettes. “We wanted to bring a chic sensibility to bridesmaids dresses – a look that is pretty yet sophisticated,” said Cynthia Rowley.

The line consists of floor and tea length dresses in fabrics such as duchess satin, cotton sateen and tulle. “Rowley’s modern silhouettes and rich fabrics are complemented by our signature array of color choices, and are sure to be a centerpiece of any wedding celebration,” said Alan Dessy, chief executive officer of The Dessy Group.

We are super excited to share the looks with you, so stay tuned. Visit here for more details.

Congratulations Cassie, we randomly choose a winner and you where the lucky lady who will be winning $500 from The Dessy Group! Stay tuned ladies Dessy will be giving away an even bigger prize than this one if you can imagine that. So, start making your sytle boards and get them ready to enter. See the winning style board here.

Today is the last day to enter the Dessy Group $500 giveaway. CLICK HERE to enter! The utterly adorable dresses above are from their new 2010 collection. Yep… your bridesmaid would sure look cute in those. So, get your creative juices flowing and enter to win.

Lets start off the week right, shall we! How about $500 to doll up your wedding party from The Dessy Group? If you did not know by now, The Dessy Group teamed up with Pantone. In order for your entire wedding to match perfectly. No more off shades of this and that.